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Most homes in the UK have hot and cold running water so there is no excuse for coming into work smelling of body odour (B.O.). There is nothing worse than sitting at a desk opposite the office smelly. I mean how difficult can it be to have a shower in the morning?
Practically every company up and down the country has one or more of these individuals. We have now come to dread the warm summer months, as this is when the foul stench from their unwashed bodies is at it’s most pungent. A combination of a stuffy room with no air con and the stale, sweaty body smell getting wafted around by a dozen desktop fans isn’t very pleasant. It’s at times like these you would happily exchange mister stinky for bad breath Bob from sales in a heartbeat, because at least he doesn’t start to smell worse as the day drags on.
I really cannot understand how some people can have such a low standard of cleanliness. I’m sure everyone has had one of those days where you have gone off to work, but forgotten to spray on some deodorant. At least you had a bath or a shower first though so it isn’t a big problem. The office smelly on the other hand, doesn’t know what a can of antiperspirant is and since he or she probably hasn’t bathed in weeks, nothing they spray on is every likely to produce the lynx effect.
Personally, I think it should be company policy to hose them down in the car park at least every other day. Maybe then the plants will get a chance to recover.
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Very funny article, great read if you are thinking of a holiday day out or trip there!!!!!
yes anon, in the last post, i do agree that smokers smell terrible by some people's standards but they generally, in my case when i smoked, carry breath freshening mints and take extra care when brushing their teeth to do a good job and most of them who work do wash properly before leaving their house daily.
Its the people who smell of B.O. all the time, worse in summer, or on the train or underground or bus when you're stuck on there til your stop nearly in their armpit due to overcrowding and lack of seats.
Sorry but they should be kicked off public transport until they freshen up.
Seriously, would you employ them if you ran a business if you had to spend the best part of every day with them?
Sorry Stinker, you're not gonna be employed by anyone I know.
One older gentleman recently, on seeing a very pretty young lady that stunk of fags said he'd give her a miss if the chance arose, he'd smelt better camels at the zoo.
Particularly when in close proximity to a person wearing such an item, on a bus or the Underground, when using a libary I.T. facility etc, it has often become apparent within nano-seconds that zipping the garment tight up to the neck utterly fails to contain the tell-tale stench that indicates that the person next to me has not had contact with soap and water for quite some time, but is wildly deluding themselves into thinking that a fleece is the answer to not washing, wearing the same clothes several days (weeks?) in a row and spurning deodorant.
Well - they're wrong!
Wear your fleece (in all it's aromatic glory) by all means - just please don't sit near me until you've been through the sheep dip...
The problem is not the people who smell, that is the natural way, how it was for hundreds of thousands of years and how it will be after the current fad for excessive washing passes. The washing compulsion most of you have is a sickness. You all clearly are not comfortable in yourselves or you would not need to try and loose your natural smell, and the vanity industry capitalises on this.
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